I’ve published an Instructables guide showing how I made this remote controlled tricycle-riding puppet.

It was such a fun project that I’m already hard at work on an updated version and a more manageable project guide. The bill of materials alone is simply ridiculous. It’s what happens when you’re prototying and just ordering random bits and grabbing things out of your stash of whatever boards you have on hand.

But until the next version is finished, I hope this guide can offer some inspiration.

This week on Maker Update: cranking up the light pipes, battling gourd bots, animatronics for your 12-ft skeleton, digital techniques for foam, bobblehead bots, and a teeny tiny TV.

This week on Maker Update, Ian Charnas takes on Mike Tyson, a bike that’s possessed, Janksy, and cooking up a Pepper’s ghost.

This week on Maker Update, a robot that flings paint, an RC duck, a pocket-sized replicant detector, and a pumpkin for your Pi.

This week on Maker Update, motorized drinking, a Raspberry Pi RC tank, a trailer hitch table, a fluorescent hexapod, bouncing pixels, LED album art, and solar blinkenlights.

This week on Maker Update: An Arduino picture painter, tufting rugs, an RC snow speeder, DIY motion-control camera rigs, a scratch-built industrial robot arm, LED stick person costume, and an answer to the question “should I have used a 555 timer?”

This week on Maker Update, a blazing fast 3D printed RC car, soft robotics in Korea, taking pictures with an Etch A Sketch, a robot recycler, and reading your pet’s RFID.

This week on Maker Update, your own Banksy art shredder, the new Pi TV HAT, the CAD of soda bottles, a wearable touchscreen computer, a 3D printed doorman, a location aware MP3 player, and a sand table drawbot.

This week on Maker Update, an RC strandbeest that shoots fireworks, Raspbian gets an update, a shape-shifting dragon drone, motorized cocktail umbrellas, warped audio boxes, cardboard techniques, the Adafruit Feather M4 Express, making custom LEDs, and does Bob Clagett have too much glue?

This week on Maker Update, gift-worthy projects including an RC Ladybug, high-tech puzzle box, firefly jar Bluetooth speakers, and a foam core constellation lamp. This week’s Cool Tool is a Digital Angle Ruler.